Python 3.8 now end of life

Python 3.11 update has now been merged. Some background why update was done to 3.11 and not to newer version. Part of the reason is that newer python version would have needed more other python packages to be updated which wouldn’t usually be a problem except that many packages have moved away from setuptools installation in newer versions and are now using the newer methods which are easier to handle once we are at least at python 3.11. It would have been possible with to handle the new installation ways also with old python but would have needed more work so updating to 3.11 was chosen as first step.

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